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Chris Dennett, of Surrey, England, never met his great-grandfather, who served in the Royal Welsh Guards and died at the age of 33, before the Battle of Monte Cassino in Italy.
He says the family connection led him to make a documentary to keep alive...

Between the ages of 9 and 16, Edith Mayer Cord lived life as a refugee, fleeing the uncertainty and terror of Nazi Germany and the Axis powers — all the while feeling she should have been living the normal life of a student.
Born Edith Mayer in Vienna in...

In 1944, Allied forces invaded Normandy, France during World War II. Now known as D-Day, the operation was key in gaining a foothold in western Europe. Above, tanks and trucks roll onto the beach after being unloaded from ships sitting off the northern...

In 1991, Helen Sharman became the first Briton to rocket into space as she flew aboard a Soviet Soyuz spacecraft with two cosmonauts on an eight-day mission to the Mir space station.
1910: Halley's Comet passed by earth, brushing it with its tail.
1933:...

In 1932, mobster Al Capone, convicted of income-tax evasion, entered the federal penitentiary in Atlanta. (Capone was later transferred to Alcatraz Island.)
1776: Rhode Island declared its freedom from England, two months before the Declaration of...

Charles R. “Hap” Hazard, a former longtime Baltimore Sun artist known for his pen and ink drawings of subjects ranging from city neighborhoods to newsmakers, died Tuesday at his Owings Mills home from complications from diabetes. He was 70.
Mr. Hazard was...

When the Orioles play their pivotal three-game series against the Boston Red Sox this weekend at Fenway Park, players throughout the majors will wear names they selected on the backs of their jerseys as part of baseball’s first Players Weekend, an...

Following the Town of Bel Air's annual Flag Day observance in Shamrock Park two summers ago, a ramrod straight nonagenarian stood talking with County Councilman James McMahan, as several people stopped by and shook the man's hand.
Robert "Bob" Smith...

Robert W. Smith, a partner in a Harford County family logging business and a decorated World War II veteran who landed at Normandy on D-Day, died of heart failure Saturday at his Bel Air home. He was 97.
Born in Baltimore and raised on a family farm in...

Together, the 9/11 attacks and the Russian meddling in the last presidential election constitute twin towers of infamy, grave and intolerable attacks against this country and what it stands for.
The 2001 assault by hijacked commercial jets leveled...

Warren G. Sody, a World War II infantryman who parachuted behind enemy lines on D-Day and later fought at the Battle of the Bulge at Bastonge, Belgium, died Tuesday from respiratory failure at Gilchrist Hospice in Towson.
The former Mays Chapel...

In 1773, the Boston Tea Party took place as American colonists boarded a British ship and dumped more than 300 chests of tea into Boston Harbor to protest tea taxes.
1907: 16 U.S. Navy battleships, which came to be known as the “Great White Fleet,” set...

In 1815, pioneering American suffragist Elizabeth Cady Stanton was born in Johnstown, N.Y.
1927: Josef Stalin became the undisputed ruler of the Soviet Union as Leon Trotsky was expelled from the Communist Party.
1936: The San Francisco-Oakland Bay...

In 1963, Neil Simon’s comedy “Barefoot in the Park,” starring Elizabeth Ashley and Robert Redford, opened on Broadway.
1707: The first Parliament of Great Britain, created by the Acts of Union between England and Scotland, held its first meeting.
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Arch L. Handy, a decorated World War II combat infantryman who fought at the Battle of the Bulge and participated in the liberation of slave labor camps in southern Germany and later became an official at Aberdeen Proving Ground, died Sunday of...

In 1980, the Mount St. Helens volcano in Washington state exploded, leaving 57 people dead or missing. (Roger Werth, AP photo)
1910: Halley's Comet passed by earth, brushing it with its tail.
1933: President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed a measure...

The one-woman play "Silent Witnesses," which portrays the experiences of four women, who as children survived the Holocaust, will premiere in Harford County at Mt. Zion United Methodist Church in Bel Air next weekend.
"I saw the play last year and felt...

Arthur S. Kirschner and John G. Reckord Jr. were members of what has come to be known as "The Greatest Generation."
They went off to World War II and served together in Company L of the U.S. Army's 4th Infantry Division. Reckord, a captain, was the...

Solomon A. Goldstein, a Baltimore insurance man and a lifelong advocate for racial equality and justice who participated in the liberation of the Buchenwald concentration camp during World War II, died Thursday of pulmonary failure at Sinai Hospital.
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